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In Frank Praeger's Sighs and Stray Gusts and Other Occasional Poems we find a poet weaving karmic webs of inclination and happenstance, extending to his readers a series of invitation to play, or walk awhile hand-in-hand, or stop a moment to wonder. The poems themselves emerge from Praeger's imagination and heart, from a place of deep compassion, and they travel far in place and time, displaying an astonishing range of emotion while still grounding themselves in the subtle distinctions of place, most notably Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula on the shores of Lake Superior. Here we find poems of both quiet dignity and of barbaric yawp, and both their vigor and their gentleness of attention, their assent into both fantasy and fond reminiscence, was a pleasure to immerse myself in. I paused only occasionally, as the speaker in Praeger's opening poem, to look "up from our foraging / half-hidden among bushes and dwarf trees." What a wonder to see the world anew. ΜΆ M. Bartley Seigel author of This Is What They Say and founding editor of the critically acclaimed literary magazine [PANK].
Part of the regionalist movement that included Grant Wood, Paul Engle, Hamlin Garland, and Jay G. Sigmund, James Hearst helped create what Iowa novelist Ruth Suckow called a poetry of place. A lifelong Iowa farner, Hearst began writing poetry at age nineteen and eventually wrote thirteen books of poems, a novel, short stories, cantatas, and essays, which gained him a devoted following Many of his poems were published in the regionalist periodicals of the time, including the Midland, and by the great regional presses, including Carroll Coleman's Prairie Press. Drawing on his experiences as a farmer, Hearst wrote with a distinct voice of rural life and its joys and conflicts, of his own battles with physical and emotional pain (he was partially paralyzed in a farm accident), and of his own place in the world. His clear eye offered a vision of the midwestern agrarian life that was sympathetic but not sentimental - a people and an art rooted in place.
"Coningsby; Or, The New Generation" by Earl of Beaconsfield Benjamin Disraeli follows the life and career of Henry Coningsby, the orphan grandson of a wealthy marquess, Lord Monmouth. Lord Monmouth initially disapproved of Coningsby's parents' marriage, but on their death he relents and sends the boy to be educated at Eton College. At Eton Coningsby meets and befriends Oswald Millbank, the son of a rich cotton manufacturer who is a bitter enemy of Lord Monmouth. The two older men represent old and new wealth in society.